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Edmondson, Willis J. 1986. Cognition, conversing and interpreting. In House, Juliane and Shoshana Blum-Kulka, eds. Interlingual and intercultural communication: discourse and cognition in translation and second language acquisition studies (Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik 272). Tübingen: Gunter Narr. pp. 129–138.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Abstract
In this paper, the author aims to explore some of the cognitive processes involved in simultaneous interpreting. The author’s starting point is a consideration of what is involved in participating (as conversionalist or discussant) in multi-source spoken discourse, in which meanings are publicly negotiated through successive turns-at-talk. It is argued that the interpreter as mediator does not in principle have a part to play in this process of negotiation, such that more space is available in working memory for the cognitive processes peculiar to interpreting.
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